Jenemos

Like all the new races, the Jenemos were
once human. They were created from human slaves that Morphael had
captured in his war against the Citadel. The Jenemos race was designed
to build and maintain Morphael’s magic driven machines. Morphael wanted
them small enough to climb amongst the gears and wheels so he made them
shorter. They needed to work in dark places so he enlarged their
eyes. So they could hear when there was a problem in the machines he
increased the size of their ears. He made their fingers long and
dexterous for intricate work, and he made them very clever so that they could create his war machines, a strange symbiosis of machines and magic.

But Morphael’s human slaves had
the last laugh. They made a secret plan, and instead of being chosen,
some of them started volunteering to become Morphael’s builder race, but
what Morphael’s minions didn’t know was that these volunteers were the
humans with the worst luck. They were the accident prone, and the
unlucky. They were the ones that just seemed to screw up no matter that
they did. And as the magic machine changed them into Morphael’s
builder race, these traits were intensified. As they bred with others
of the ‘Builder’ race their bad traits became dominant. Soon bad things
started happening within Morphael’s fortress as the bad luck of his
builder race reached epic proportions. His machines began to fail for
no logical reason.